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5. Choose three of the main events of the French Revolution listed below. Explain whether each event moved France closer to a representative government or further away from it and why.

(a) Representatives of the Third Estate declare themselves the National Assembly.
(b) A mob storms the Bastille.
(c) The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen is written.
(d) The National Assembly is replaced with the National Convention, which writes a constitution allowing all males to vote.
(e) Thousands of nobles are executed during the Reign of Terror.
(f) A third constitution gives power to a Directory and limits voting to property-owning males.
(g) Napoleon takes power from the unpopular Directory in a coup d'état.
(h) Napoleon names himself Emperor of the French.

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Well (b) was the tick that really made the whole was start because France was already on edge so when the Bastille was stormed that's when the war was kicked off
(E) mostly because so many family lines with important people in France were killed so that created a lot of dispute
(H) because France had a king then this war hero said he was gonna rule and the people mostly novels were not okay with that
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